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Santorini is a beautiful Greek island with white-washed houses with blue roofs. My husband and I went there a few years ago.  I would love to return.  In the meantime, I decided to recreate my memories by designing a windmill.  This is my version without the wooden crossbeams because it would require more engineering that I am willing to do on this project.  I would have to worry about the weight of the wooden crossbeams and how to attach it...so not today. Here is the .Studio file for the Santorini windmill. I used cardstock to create the model. Bend the paper model into a cylinder before gluing. Fold up the circle tabs on the bottom and glue to the windmill forming a cylinder. Glue the side. Fold down the circle tabs at the top and glue to the windmill. Bend the cone into its shape before gluing.  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYX2stTlY3TDRnR0E/edit?usp=sharing Here is a picture with my previously design...

The leaves are starting to change color and I wanted to add some fall color to my house.  I decided to create paper pumpkins, apples and a football with my Cameo Silhouette. Here are the .Studio file for the pumpkins.  I used cardstock but you could use regular scrapbooking paper for both the pumpkins and apples.  https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYMm9QSXA1dVJaaUk/edit?usp=sharing There are twelve images to an 8 1/2 x 11 page.  I used 6 images to create my pumpkin.  You could use more if you would like.  Fold them in half and apply glue to one side of each pumpkin as shown in the picture below and attach in a circle. Here are the .Studio file for the apples. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYU21WbFlCTWxJdFE/edit?usp=sharing Again there are twelve images to an 8 1/2 x 11 page.  I used 6 images to create the apple.  You can use more images if you would like.  Assembly is the same as the pumpkins.  Fold in half ...

Six Square Pyramids Can Fit Perfectly Into a Cube    A few years ago, I visited the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt with my family.  It is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world that is still in existence.  It's a remarkable sight to see and a wonder as to how it was built with such precision. One of the many amazing facts about the pyramid is that if you take the perimeter of the pyramid and divide it by twice the height, you get a number that is exactly equivalent to the number pi up to the fifteenth digit - 3.14159265358979. The perimeter of the Great Pyramid of Giza that I found online is 921.25 meters and its original height being 146.64 meters which calculates to 3.1412 (However, I can't find the exact measurements online so I can't verify the above fifteen digit calculation...if you find them please email me).  Here's a funny way to remember pi up to the fifteenth digit. Count the letters in the words ...

I created a fall themed bulletin board for my math class.  I bought the bear in the wagon and the crows in the basket from the Silhouette online store.  I increased the size of the images by 200 percent. The tree was made from Kraft paper strips which were crumpled.  I copied the leaves from the internet and resized worksheet word problems to fit within each leaf.   The students answered the word problem, cut out the leaf and stapled the leaf to the bulletin board.  The student's reaction to the leaf problems were very positive. They love to see their work and by having them staple it to the board...they felt proud of their accomplishment.  They showed their work to others when they walked by the bulletin board. In fact, they asked to do them again for other occasions. Here are a few of their suggestions...Thanksgiving turkeys, snowflakes, snow men. The bulletin board was up a few days when I ...

Paper House with Sliceform Trees I love making all kinds of houses.  First gingerbread houses...I have made more than a hundred gingerbread houses over the course of many holidays. I even made them for a bridal shower. Katie's friend - Lisa's shower party Then doll houses... Now, I decided I need to make the houses in paper.  This model is four inches tall. Here is my version as a .Studio file.  I used cardstock to cut out the house. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYUHAydDhycHB2WDA/edit?usp=sharing I hope you like it.  I have many more ideas for these houses.  Hopefully, in the near future I will be able to add more paper models to my vision. The sliceform tree directions are in another post. http://papercraftetc.blogspot.com/2013/11/how-can-you-make-cone-with-analytical.html

A circle within a circle sliceform. I created this slice form with geometry.  I made a circle and divided it equally into parts.  Each slit represents a 45 degree angle.  The slits are at 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270 and 315 degrees. The corresponding circle is similar at the equator.  However, the two outermost corresponding circles needed to be skewed because the width of the ring that is being intersected is different than at the equator. I had to measure this with a ruler to adjust both outermost circle sizes.  I am sure there is a mathematically equation that I could have used but it was easier just to measure the distance and adjust the size in the Silhouette Cameo designer software. Notice the 45 degree angles The circle in the middle(light purple) is similar to the corresponding circles (dark purple). The two outermost circles(light purple) had to measured with a ruler. Here are the .Studio files. Cut one of each file in cardstock. https://docs.goo...

This summer I explored origami and I was fascinated when I folded a cube within a cube.  I tried to replicate this idea using a slice form.  I cut some squares and tried various methods.  I came up with the following slice form.  It was a little difficult to slide together because the paper must be bent this way and that way.  This model can be folded flat.  This is a very important phenomenon because it has applications in space exploration.  For instance this could be a solar array panel which would lay flat in transport and be deployed to open in outer space. Here is the .Studio file if you care to explore this slice form. Cut one using cardstock. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYcU5FTGVaQkNFN28/edit?usp=sharing Here is the PDF. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7oGIyVDbRGYTU9WV0RDbTE0VEU/edit?usp=sharing #sliceform #cube